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Woman enjoys feeding her pond fish
(Local News ~ 08/07/04)
BUCKTOWN ---- It is a sweat-dripping hot and humid summer southern Indiana afternoon as Bucktown resident Pamela Bowser prepares to go through a daily feeding ritual for her beloved largemouth fish which habitat in her backyard pond ---- located a few hundred yards off State Road 159 ---- about six miles south of Dugger...
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Linton golfers finish third at Edgewood Invitational
(High School Sports ~ 08/07/04)
BEDFORD ---- With so many uncertainties surrounding this season, the Linton golf team finished a surprising third at the 12 team Edgewood invitational at Bedford's Stonecrest Country Club. Surprising because the Miners only had two golfers competing with any true experience in golf. Surprising further was the fact the invitational was an 18 hole affair and that, once again, only two had competed in an 18 hole event...
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Greg M. Walker
(Obituary ~ 08/07/04)
Greg M. Walker, 27, of Jasonville, passed away Thursday, Aug. 5, 2004 at Greene County General Hospital Linton. Born Sept. 30, 1976 in Terre Haute, he was the son of Michael S. and Vicki J. (Evanoff) Walker. He was an auto mechanic with Midas in Terre Haute...
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Shawnee Theatre review
(Local News ~ 08/07/04)
The Shawnee Theatre's final play will end the season with a bang. Out of Order, by Ray Cooney is a zany farce that puts its characters in quite a predicament. It all begins in the Westminster Hotel in London. A junior minister of Parliament is trying to create at romantic evening for himself and his could be mistress. An odd discovery leads to a turn of events that the young gentleman would have never dreamed up...
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Sandborn Town Council meets
(Local News ~ 08/07/04)
SANDBORN ---- At the Thursday meeting of the Sandborn Town Council, Leota Brinson, board president, urged all Sandborn homeowners to attend the town meeting at the Community Center on Aug. 26 at 7 p.m. to approve easements that will allow the town to install the septic tanks and to access them for maintenance purposes...
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Bloomfield administrators get pay increase
(Local News ~ 08/07/04)
Bloomfield School District administrators will be getting pay raises for the next two years that together range between $4,550 and $9,500 following action Thursday night by the school board. The amount of the raises has one board member calling the wage hikes excessive...
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Linton church gets new pipe organ
(Local News ~ 08/07/04)
The Linton First United Methodist Church is once again filled with the sound of a pipe organ for the first time since last fall. For three years the church has been raising money with pledges, garage sales, donut sales, etc. On June 19 the new organ was finally moved into the church...
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Bloomfield couple hurt in crash
(Local News ~ 08/07/04)
ELNORA ---- A Bloomfield couple was hospitalized, one in critical condition, following a two-vehicle wreck in northern Daviess County on Thursday. Virginia Hasler, 84, a passenger in a 1993 Cadillac driven by her husband, Garland F. Hasler, 86, suffered neck injuries and a collapsed lung in the 4:15 p.m. accident that occurred at the intersection of State Road 58 and State Road 358...
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Bloomfield custodial workers upset
(Local News ~ 08/07/04)
While the Bloomfield Board of School Trustees is happy to have a new contract ratified with the teacher's association, another group of employees ---- custodial workers ---- is not happy with their current benefit plan. Janis Troxell, a 26-year school custodian, addressed the board upset with the proposed three percent pay increase offered to all support staff employees as part of a wage scale plan approved Thursday night...
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Linton tennis team returns veterans
(High School Sports ~ 08/07/04)
LINTON ---- With his entire team in place from last season, plus a few extra additions, Linton tennis coach Brad McKinney is hoping to add new decoration to the gymnasium with a sectional title. We've never won a conference title or a sectional title," noted McKinney. "We have a pretty good feeling with everyone back...
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